The city council of Taipei, Taiwan gives Seattle a pavilion for Hing Hay Park. Includes commentary on Seattle's last gift from an Asian country: the City of Tokyo, Japan, gave a gift of a tea house for the Japanese Garden in the Arboretum.
Japanese film makers are in Seattle to make a film on an immigrant, Waka Yamada, who was sold into Seattle prostitution at the turn of the twentieth century and lived at Aloha House in the International District. Assisting the crew is Uhachi Tamesa…
History of the early Japanese settlers in the Highline, WA also known as Sunnydale, WA ) and tells the story of the families of Uhachi Tamesa and Kyosuke Yokoa